Ten storeys high, these wind-swept piles rise from the sea and abut steep, rocky cliffs.

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Chances were hard to fashion at a wind-swept Spytty Park in a low quality first half.

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It's thought that hot pot originated in Mongolia (it's easy to imagine gathering around a coal fire in that cold and wind-swept region).

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Monika was there, her hair was wind-swept to one side (wish there had been a breeze) and she glistened in her own metallic jeans.

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The draft EU constitution now has more opponents than supporters in Finland, but then the wind of globalisation has swept over Finland with a harsh hand over the past year.

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Then, if you are sufficiently small, you may be lucky enough to be hurled aloft in the spray, and swept upwards by the wind.

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This devastation dates from 1974, when Mitsubishi shut down an 84-year-old coal mine on the wind-blown, storm-swept island of Hashima, 12 miles (19 kilometers) southwest of town.

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He argued that the sea gets it iron from dust swept into the sea from the land, and that wind currents weren't carrying iron to HNLC areas.

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